Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-11
SACRAMENTAL DAY.
A Great Ingathering Of Repentant
Ones Seeking Salvation in the
Fold Of the Living God,
The Tender Memories Brought Back by
the Sacramento Days OF Old
Bring Ali Together Again.
The Church Triumphant and tho Church
Militant United Around the Table
whore the REASONED Sit.
Special to the Gazette.

whore the REASONED Sit.
Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, March 6.-This IS
Sacramento Day in the Brooklyn taber-
nacle, and the sermon is preached at the
reception of 347 new members, making
600 received during the present revival,
SO that the commandment membership
now is 405l. The Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, D. d, the pastor, gave the right
hsnd of fellowship TO the new members,
and baptized about rinety. The audience
sang
Blest be the tie that binds
orr hearts in Christian love.
There was great arch OF flowers over
the pulpit containing the words: 81 be
lieve in the CummuuiOn OF saints" DR..
Talmage took two texts, l. Chronicles,
xii, ): "And four thousand praised
the Lord" and Exodus, xii, II: "This
day shall be unto you Tor q memorial u
He said:
When week before last the communi-
cant membership Of this church passed
into the 1000, now reaching 405l, the first
part of my text came to my mind, and |
bethought myself what
A GRAND THING
| If the 1000 of our communicate member
ship would, Ike the 1000 of the ancient
temple, make it their lifetime business to
praise the Lord. Let them all take harm
and timbrel and anthem and doxology,
| The allusion of my second text is to
the Passover, which commemorated the
| Geliverance of the children of Israel on
the night when the DESTROYING angel sped
through Il e land of Egypt, destroying
the enemy but saving the Israelites be-
cause on the doOr-pOsts OF their dwellings
was sprinkled the blood Of lamb To-
day We come to celebrate a grander pass
over, all peril going away from our soul
| at the sight of the spriDkled blood of the
Lamb of God On the doOr-posts of our
hearts. Christ, our Passover, sacrificed
4 for US. "ThiS dNy shall be unto you for
g memorial"
The Sacramento Sabbath, whether it
comes in an American church or an Eng
lish chapel or a Scotch kirk, is more ira-
rressive than any Cth,r Sabbath. It's
light is hOlier, Caimer, Sweeter; it.
voices more tender; its touch is softer: its
memories ere more chastened. The fruits
cf the Christian life suddenly ripeD, Ike
orchards on the hill fronting the south.
The wine of the Holy Sacrament seems
pressed from the grapes of celestial vine
/ yarGs, ard the bread broken seems TO
/ drop from the hand of Him who partei
! the loaves for the 5000. We walk 70
the church of God with more thoughtful
face and with quieter step. The
JUBMANT SONGS
| of other sundays are struck through with
I nd a. oil = n
/ tears, and when, at the close of the ser
vice, at the door we shake hands, It is
with more cordial grasp, because we
feel thrilling through our body, aud
mind, and soul the great doctrines
of Christian brotherhood; and our
minds go back to our forefatherS cele-
brating the sacrament in times of perse-
cution in Scotland among the Highlands
commemorative the dying love OF Christ,
while they were pursued of their enc
mics, pouring the wine into rough
wooden cups, dipping the waters of bap-
tism from the mountain rock, until one
day they heard the voices of their enc
mics coming I'D the hill, and the pastor
cried out: ooh Lord, the Shepherd, have
mercy on the sheep" aud Instantly there
was roaring heard as Of great floods
and sure enough a cloud had burst and
there were great torrents running down
the mountain side that Whelmed their
foes with sudden wrath. What a deliv-
erance il was for them or that sacrament
al day On! that on this Sacramcntal
Day the cloud of GODS mercy might
/ burst and our sins DE whelmed and our
souls be saved. This is the amethyst Of
days. This is the pearl Of days. This is
| the diamond Cf days. This Is the day of
! days. Among the ten thousand million
ages OF eternity the first Sabbath OF
March, 1887, Will be to you significant
and memorable, for "this day shall be
unto you" forever and forever "a memo
rial"
There is much in the scene Of to-day
i toinpress Us because it is time Of rein
forcement. l used to remark that if |
ever lived to see our membership reech
1000 l thought l would De will
ing to say with one OF old: Now,
Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in
peace, for mine eyes have seen thy saliva
ton" But have changed my mind,
! and Insyer so much wanted TO stay rs
fssow, so as to see them all enlisted for
/ God and to watch their victories. What
might they not accomplish in the way of
making
THE WORLD BETTER
if they were all baptized with g double
| portion of the Holy Ghost, Four thou
sand! That is four full regiments, as
military men count 1000 to regiment. l
| think not one hypoCrite amongst them.
| Taken into the church sometimes in large
numbers, but each one as carefully ex-
amined as to change Of heart, and evil
dence of regeneration, as though he or
she were tie only one presenting himself
or herself. Many of our former members
have passed away into the skies, and have
! joined the church triumphant, but we
have 1000 end more left for the church
militant. To arms, Quit you like men.
We want no reserve corps among them.
| Go into action all of you. Some will be
officers and command. Some vii! make
cavalry charges. Some will be sharp
/ shooters. Some will stand guard. Some
will be on picket duty. Many of you will
belong to the rank and file. Let there be
no stragg!ers, none of on furlough, not
one deserter. With Christ for command
er-in-chief, and the one-sterred, blood
striped banner OF manger and cross to
lead the way, give the order that the
| general in the war gave, when rising in
his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind
he cried out til all the host heard him
Forward. the whole line.''
There is also something in such 6 scene
to deeply impress one. because it re-
hearses death scene. Now, YOU know,
there is something very touching in such
an incident. Though you are in hotel
end it is q stranger thst is dying, how
softly you move about the place, and If
you come up to his couch it is with IN
covered head. Even the voice of the
jester is STOPPED, and when the eyes CT
int 81 III !. l.